Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-23
GOLD ORE.
TEE Assay OF THE gIEawooD III. c.
FIND.
MILITARY Notes-An Illicit Distillery Cap
tured Marrow Escape Of the
owner-Briefs.
Isneci,l tolerrnm o the DIspa.ch.l

RALEIGH. N. c., September 22.-To-
day the assay was completed by the
State Chemist of the gold ore from the
lands of l.. yinson, near Ringwood,
Halifax county. 1t assays 1864 per ton.
Governor Scales to-day appointed
hubert Haywood, of Raleigh, Surgeon
General. to succeed Eugene Grlssom,
who recently resigned.
MAGISTRATES were to-day appointed
by the Governor for the counties OF
Stokes. Mcdowell. and Hartford.
Railway police were to-day appoint
cd ON the Cape Fear aud Yadkin Val
ley railroad by Governor Scales.
Orders have been received to equip
the Palmyra Home Guard and the
Scotland-Neck Mounted Rifiemen, both
of Halifax county. The former has
been assigned to the First regiment as
Company X.
Judge Shepherd, of the Superior
Court, has rendered decision in the
Holton case in Guilford county. Holton,
the Republican clerk of the Superior
Court, refuses to administer the oath
of Office to the magistrates whom Gov
ernor Scales had appointed for that
county to supply the places of those
who had failed to qualify after election
by the Legislature. The suit was a
mandamus to compel Holton to qualify
the magistrates. Judge Shepherd de-
cides that Holton must qualify them,
and puts the burden of costs on Holton.
The latter appeals to the Supreme
Court.
Tuesday Officers Taylor and Mallekin,
OF the revenue force in this district,
captured an illicit distillery in Chatham
county. 1t was in operation and It's
owner narrowly escaped capture. He
fed, leaving bis coat behind him.
Dr. Robert X. Smith, a valued citi-
zen Of Chatham county, was found
dead in the porch of his house seated
in chair with newspaper in his
band. He had died while reading. His
age was eighty-one years.
G. W. Macune, president OF the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance, has issued a
proclamation to the local alliances in
North Carolina calling on them to send
delegates to meet at Rockingham,
Richmond county, on the 18th of Octo-
Der to organize State alliance.
Yesterday boy named Hill, aged
twelve years, was crushed to death in a
cane mill in CASTOR county. He was
knocked against the massive wooden
cylinders or crushers by sweep. and
was caught by the hair and his head was
drawn through.
The Board of Trustees of Davidson
College met day before yesterday and
decided to raise an endowment fund Of
100000. The condition OF the college
as shown by reports is satisfactory.
A chair Of Bible study and Presby terian
history is TO be founded.
The body of James Wilbert, the ne
gro who so brutally murdered his wife
near Wilmington, has been discovered
in the Cape Fear river. His body was
horribly swollen and the features dis
torted. 1T Is conjectured that one OF
the shots fred at him may have taken
effect, and that bis strength failed him
when he attempted to swim the river to
escape.
The people of Beaufort are certainly
anxious TO secure the annual meetings
of the Teachers Assembly at their
towp, and certainly make liberal offers
of land and buildings.
There has been a very sharp advance
in the price of cotton-seGd, and it Is
now higher than ever before. The
farmers are of course the gamers by the
advance.
The news of the tobacco crop rs TO
quality all continues favorable. 1t
may be spoken OF generallyas "A bright
crop. The new tobacco section has
done very well. OF course the quantity
of tobacco grown in the new belt IS not
very great, vet this news as TO its very
high quality will show the possibilities
| of the extension Of the true bright to-
bacco district. Wake and franklin, as
well as Nash, are now certainly IN tina
district.
he steamer Annie. of the Eastern
Dispatch Line, which was swept high
and dry 10y the great August storm, has
been gotten about again uniniured aud
was brought to Newbene yesterday.
Your correspondent some time age
noted tie fact that sugar-cane or sor-
gbum culture is again popular in the
State, and that homemade syrups are
again being turned ont, thanks TO new
methods. 1he press Of the State com
mented on the fact and made point Of
it as distinct advance. Yields Of a:
much as 100 gallons of syrup from
three quarters of an acre III cane are
reported. Next year the area In canC
will be doubled. The syrup under the
new processes has q fine color anC
flavor. 1t sells readily at from forty t.
fifty cents per gallon.